Finishing strong
Kevin Hensley
Robbinsville – The second time around, the Lady Knights made sure to definitively put the game out-of-reach early.
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Robbinsville senior Jayden Nowell hooks the left arm of Swain County’s Owen Craig during the 132-pound bout of the Feb. 2 third round, dual-team championship match in Bryson City. Photo by Kevin Hensley/sports@grahamstar.com
Black Knights fall in Western Regional finals
Kevin Hensley
Bryson City – It was not the way things had hoped to go.
Robbinsville (No. 1 seed, 22-2) knocked off Smoky Mountain Conference foe Swain County (No. 5, 18-4) in the third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s Dual-Team Championship Tournament on Feb.
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Robbinsville’s indoor track team bundled up and showed off at the Feb. 2 Smoky Mountain Conference championship meet in Cherokee. Kneeling in front (from left): Montana Buchanan, Haize Moore and Caylin Lunsford. Standing (from left): Caden Lail, Roman Jones, Kensley Phillips, Zoie Shuler, Delaney Brooms, William Cable and Zeb Stewart. Photo by Kevin Hensley/sports@grahamstar.com
By the numbers
Kevin Hensley
Cherokee – Numbers might have dwindled, but Robbinsville is still sending a fearsome foursome to the state indoor track meet Friday.
Coming off an impressive showing at the Smoky Mountain Conference championship meet Feb.
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Linda Smith Lofty
News Staff
We regretfully announce the passing of Linda Smith Lofty, 73 of Robbinsville, N.C. on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.
Linda was surrounded by her family prior to and upon her passing, at Mission Hospital in Asheville N.C.
Linda was a loving and dedicated mother and grandmother to her family.
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Arthur Ray Carver
News Staff
Arthur Ray Carver, 63 of Robbinsville, N.C., passed away, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, NC.
He was a native of Graham County and the son of the late James Claude Carver and Bonnie Marie Coe.
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Bonnie Stinnett
News Staff
Bonnie Stinnett, 94 of Robbinsville, N.C., passed away, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, at Graham Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Robbinsville, N.C.
She was a native of Graham County and the daughter of the late Rube and Sarah Jane Naillon Sharpe.
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Albert “Jackie” Bowman
News Staff
With great sadness, we announce the peaceful passing of Albert “Jackie” Bowman.
Jack passed away at Tsali Care Center in Cherokee, N.C. on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. He will be missed by family near and far.
Jack was born in Bakersville, N.C. where he grew up. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
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Debroah Ellen Sheffey Cable
News Staff
Deborah Ellen Sheffey Cable, 66 of Robbinsville, N.C., passed away peacefully at 10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., after a very short illness with B-Cell Lymphoma caused by a prescribed medication for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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Grants to fix town’s ‘at risk’ system
Randy Foster
Robbinsville – “At risk” Town of Robbinsville utilities are in line for several million dollars in grant money to restore and retrofit systems, town engineerings Joel Storrow told the Board of Aldermen at its Feb. 2 meeting.
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Lady Knights senior Aynsley Fink didn’t even break a sweat Saturday, as she captured her second straight N.C. High School Athletic Association Women’s Invitational State Championship in Greensboro. Photos by Kevin Hensley/sports@grahamstar.com
History repeats itself
Kevin Hensley
Greensboro – Label her as you wish: role model, trendsetter or even unstoppable.
Just don't peg her as ungrateful.
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